Metadata: IPTC Location bug

Have clean LR install (no previous beta's) and fresh created database with 1159 images (mixed CR2 and jpg) on PC (AMD 3000+, 1Gig RAM) -and I do know how to maintain WinXP.
I've selected one image and tagged all four IPTC location fields:
Country= Slovenia
State= Doma
City= Doma
Location= Doma
After a while (damn, why this takes so long), fields on the left pane (Metadata Browser) were updated. Then I deleted Location tag and leaved Country, State and City untouched. After a while (again), left pane's content updated and... (I hope you'll understand what I'm trying to say)...
I still see country (Slovenia) there, but it contains zero entries! So I have in total 1159 Location entries, Slovenia zero entries and 1158 Unknown Country -weird. I can click on Slovenia (which is greyed out), but no image gets shown in thumbnail preview. If I look after this particular image manually, I can still see that image's Country is Slovenia (and I can also find image using Find: IPTC=Slovenia). Also I don't see State and City entries (which are "Doma") anymore in left pane.
Yes, I've closed and reopened LR, but things remain the same. There's no way I can force LR to refresh it's database.
Before continuing I need to say, that I AM database approach fan. Here and there I can read LR's database (workflow, speed,..) isn't so bad after all.. and that some are too picky, complaining all the time.... Let me tell, that LR's database approach is one of the worst I've seen so far:
Reflections (updating on the left pane) to every correction made by user takes way too long. Actually I wouldn't care about that (being done in background), but if you type fast enough (on the right pane) and edit your mistakes here and there, then you simply cannot know how far have you come -it takes too long before left pane is up to date.
Why can't I simply select couple of images and drag them into desired Location field (simila as with Keywords)? It's a basic task. Why there's no simply way to see untaged (Not Keyworded, Not Localized, Not edited) files? Yes, I can do something of that with Color/Star/Flag labeling, but why increasing workflow?
I suppose Collections is something like "Albums" in other DAM's. If I click on some thumbnail, how can I know in which collection image is (if in any)?
Why I cannot select (in Collections, Keywords,...) only images which are in selected parent tree (subtree content excluded)?
In short: user shouldn't notice there's database working behind -in this case, I'm quite sure, everybody will like "database paradigm".
Greetings to all,
Bogdan

I think I'm getting to understand IPTC Location issue here (if somebody interested)...
On the left panel (Metadata Browser), tag Location (once filled with some string) has the the lowest (deepest) position in the tree:
Country->State->City->"Location"
If Location is blank, entry resides outside this tree (=Unknown Location inside Location). So, Location tag (not Location section in Metadata Browser) seems to be something like root location tag: if it is empty, other location tags (Country, City,...) aren't managed. Now I'm curious... why does "Unknown Location" reside outside "Unknown Country" -I suppose it should be inside "Unknown City". If there is a reason for being outside, then this tag (Location) shouldn't influence other Location (Country, City...) behaviour.

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